RE: Why Winsor & Newton?

Where is Wilhelm in all of this? Has he tested any of the pigments applied
as "intended" or within a gum print?

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Katharine Thayer [mailto:kthayer@pacifier.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2005 6:04 AM
> To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
> Subject: Re: Why Winsor & Newton?
>
> Katharine Thayer wrote:
> >
> > Christina Z. Anderson wrote:
> > >
> > > > Christina Z. Anderson wrote:
> > > > Now, Holbein does have one color that no other person makes quite
> > > >> the same--Opera. Can't wait to make a gum with that as my magenta
> of
> > > >> choice.
> > > Katharine wrote:
> > > > Just so you know, one of the pigments in that paint, basic violet
> 10, is
> > > > fugitive. (The other pigment is PR122, quinacridone magenta).
> > >
> > > Interesting, but Page gives it 3 stars, her highest rating, saying
> > > lightfastness is very good.
>
>
> And as I was saying in a conversation with Henk last week or so, no one
> really knows for sure whether pigments that are fugitive in themselves
> are equally fugitive once encased in hardened gum. I assume that the
> answer is yes, so I don't use fugitive pigments. But until someone
> actually does that fade testing, we're all just guessing; maybe you'll
> do those tests, Chris...
> Katharine
Received on Wed Jun 1 13:27:17 2005